Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Pair of Meissen circular tureens and covers, circa 1740, painted in Kakiemon style with the flying fox/squirrel design, the lid and base each with a moulded band and painted with a red squirrel above a banded hedges and another yellow squirrel all amongst Indianische Blumen, the lid with scalloped brown edge and a pine-cone finial; underglaze blue crossed swords to the base.
Dimensions:
Diameter: 19cm. (7 1/2in.)
Condition:
Faults to finials; for the tureen on the right see the sixth and seventh images. (this finial has been reattached). For the tureen on the left see the 5th image.(this finial is chipped)
Notes:
For a similar decorated tureen see: Meissener Porzellane mit Dekoren Ostasiatichen Vorbildern; based on the Ernst Schneider Collection.
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